All good things must come to an end and so must Bird Renaming Week. Wait, that came out wrong. Bird Renaming Week is a...
Does anybody know which part of the Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias is referred to that entitles it to use the colour blue in its name?...
You have to love June, when birding stops well before the month itself. Is anyone willing to struggle out this weekend to look at...
I’d learned a lot since the last time I sat in a meeting room even close to this fancy. Mostly, don’t steal breath mints....
The Cape May Warbler is a boldly patterned, voracious predator. Primarily yellow below, with black racing stripes, it prowls through the canopy laying waste to...
I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. I pushed for Wikipedia to adopt them, and...
Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle For a German living in China, bird names have some additional complexities. Most of the...
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